Category : Local News

MASERU — A Maseru police constable appeared in court on Monday to answer charges of corruption. Constable Mokhitlinyane Mokiti, 47, is alleged to have solicited...

MASERU — The National Identity Cards Bill 2010 which seeks to document all people living in Lesotho was read in parliament for the first time...

MASERU — A post office manager has filed a M200 000 lawsuit against the police for torture, unlawful arrest and detention. Taele Mohale, who is...

By Khahliso Khama MASERU — Limkokwing University students yesterday went on strike protesting against what they called “bad management and poor services”. The strike started...

IN last week’s issue of the Lesotho Times, we carried a story headlined “Hotel boss jailed”. The story said a local businessman, Tumo Tlelai, had...

MASERU — The managing director of Sun Bakery, Thabo Phohleli, was shot dead a few hours after he was kidnapped from his home by armed...

MASERU — Pitso Maisa, the All Basotho Convention (ABC) MP for Motimposo, wants the party’s national youth committee disbanded because it is believed to be...

MASERU — Lesotho opposition parties on Tuesday distanced themselves from a report that was presented to Sadc leaders at a summit held in Windhoek, Namibia,...

MASERU — An American Peace Corps volunteer, Thomas Maresco, 24, was fatally shot in Maseru on last Friday. Acting police spokesperson, Lekhotla Mokete, confirmed the...

MASERU — Trade unionist and politician Macaefa Billy says he wants to fight the Wages Advisory Board for serving the interests of employers and not...

MASERU — A senior manager at a Maputsoe-based textile factory last week allegedly shot at two senior Factory Workers Union (Fawu) executives who tried to...

MASERU — The battle for the troubled Lesotho Public Motor Transport Company (LPMTC) reached boiling point last week amidst allegations that a trustee of the...

MASERU — At the centre of the case are allegations that Tlelai illegally occupied a piece of land on which he was quarrying atop the...

MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho is planning to sue a legal services insurance company, the Lawyer’s Voice, for allegedly operating an illegal insurance...

MASERU — Two photographers’ associations are embroiled in a fight over who should be operating from the new passport offices in Maseru. Members of the...

MASERU — Mosala Mojakisane last weekend easily retained the presidency of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league ending a protracted turf war...

MASERU — A prominent Maseru lawyer has turned against a client he once represented.  Advocate Hopolang Nathane once represented ’Mamatlakala Maphisa in a case in...

MASERU — The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare will kickstart a countrywide measles immunisation campaign this month. Health Minister Dr Mphu Ramatlapeng last week...

MASERU — He was stripped and handcuffed. He was suffocated with latex gloves and strangled with bare hands. Then, when that failed to get him...

MASERU — The Assistant Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety Lineo Molise-Mabusela says the government has produced nearly 90 000 passports over the past...

MASERU — A 22-year-old man from Ha Tsolo in Maseru set himself ablaze last Saturday after allegedly raping his 19-year-old cousin. Police spokesman Masupha Masupha...

MASERU — The battle for leadership for the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league goes to the wire this Saturday. The nomination list shows...

ROMA – Non-academic staff at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) are up in arms against the university’s management. The Non-Academic Workers Union (Nawu) which...

MASERU — Businessman Mohau Thakaso yesterday lost his cool after a case against his erstwhile colleagues at People’s Choice (PC) FM was postponed. Thakaso, who...

MASERU — Tension between workers and management at the High Court has reached boiling point. The Lesotho Times can reveal that the registrar of the...

MASERU — It was a typical case of road rage. Two motorists were driving in opposite directions in Ha-Mabote in Berea. They met along some...

MASERU — The fight for the control of a Maseru transport company has taken a new twist. Two months after Moeketsi “Chaltin” Tsatsanyane elbowed out...

MASERU — Former members of the dissolved Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league national executive committee are set to bounce back after they were...

MASERU — Three prominent lawyers are embroiled in a battle for control of People’s Choice FM (PC FM) radio station.   Advocates Salemane Phafane and Thabo...